As a followup to the post on Roz Chast’s Symmetry magazine cartoons, I get to tell you* about a fun competition! The prize? A Roz Chast autographed copy of the May edition of Symmetry magazine (yes, that’s the one she did the cover for) and an appearance in a later edition of the magazine!
You can find the entry details at Symmetry magazine here, and I quote:
Flerbs? Marteenies?? Tom, Dick, and Harry???
Cartoonist Roz Chast has busted the field of particle physics wide open with her pioneering cover for this issue of symmetry. We say it’s about time: Why limit ourselves to the same old list of particles that have actually been discovered, or at least properly theorized? So here’s the challenge: Invent an elementary particle and tell us what it does in 30 words or fewer. A drawing would be nice, but not mandatory. […]
So go ahead and send in your entries! If you like, come back here and tell us about your entries (or perhaps ideas you did not send in) here!
-cvj
(*Thanks to David Harris!)
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-cvj
My, er, calculations reveal that Yabba’s are tiger striped, Dabba’s are spotted and Do’s are khakhi coloured. Confinement is quite strict within the Bettyons (Yabba and Anti-Yabba), less so for the Barneyons (Dabba, Do, Do) and hardly at all for the Fredons.
I leave the constituents of the Fredon as an exercise for the reader 🙂
Ha HA! Are Yabba’s, Dabba’s and Do’s confined? do they come in different colours?
Inquiring minds need to know…. 😉
-cvj
I should have mentioned that all Flintson particles are in fact composite. They are made of various combinations of Yabba’s, Dabba’s and Do’s.
Right. I’ll shutup now.
The elusive dagnabbiton interacts weakly with experimentalists equipment. It produces a 2 sigma signal at whatever energy is appropriate before disappearing.
Goforth’s are very prolific particles indeed.
The Flintston is a member of the first particle family to be produced after the big bang, other members include Wilmarons and Rubblons.
Antidisestablishmentarianismons will be discovered when the computers used to find such things move to 512 bit processing.
The all pervasive background radiation is not really red-shifted photons but a field of Rhubarbinos.
Tundrids cannot be accelerated, despite a super-LHC, to go very fast at all.
The family of Spasms are fascinating; Ticons (and Ticoffs), Twitchons, Flapabouts and the rare Trumble interact with everything. They cause the universe to wobble very slightly…
Well, I have Einstein’s Field Equations in smiley formalism here http://globalpioneering.com/wp02/einsteins-field-equations-in-smiley-formalism/
That should qualify me for the first prize:)